Mass Immigration and the Undoing of Europe

In Germany, where traffickers are now dropping off illegal immigrants on Autobahns, authorities have reacted -- not by trying to intercept or discourage traffickers, but by putting up new road signs alerting drivers of potential pedestrians on the highway.

Last month alone, more migrants landed on the shores of Greece than in the whole of 2014.

If the mainstream media keep reminding everyone how the rioting immigrant youths in France or Britain are driven by economic inequality now, imagine the scale of unrest once European welfare states cannot finance "half the planet" anymore and are forced to cut welfare benefits.

No one, however, especially the media, blames migrants for their own actions.

This is the real tragedy of the unfolding refugee crisis in Europe: apart from those fleeing combat zones, most migrants swarming European borders and coastlines do not appear to be in any real or dire need.

With the European Union surrendering its immigration policy to people smugglers, the immigration crisis in Europe keeps reaching staggering new heights. The word has gone out that Fortress Europe is scalable. From Morocco to Turkey, people smuggling has turned into an irresistibly big business.

From small-time thugs to the terror outfit Hamas -- for $2500-$3000 per person smuggled -- many evidently want to seize a slice of this lucrative business that was created by the EU's collective inaction.

In Germany, where traffickers are now dropping off illegal immigrants on Autobahns, authorities have reacted -- not by trying to intercept or discourage the traffickers, but by putting new road-signs alerting drivers of potential pedestrians on the highway.

Even before this year's mass immigration began, Germany was struggling to deal with roughly a quarter of a million asylum applicants -- without even accounting for the illegal immigrants already in the country. The recent wave of migration would push those figures to record heights.

The trend in Germany merely reflects the overall scale of the European immigrant crisis. In July 2015, an estimated 50,000 refugees entered Greece, a surge of 750 percent. Last month alone more migrants landed than in the whole of 2014.

In Germany, the head of Lower Saxony's Municipal Federation, Marco Trips, told local reporters that the "system has already collapsed." This sentiment is apparently shared by municipalities across Germany. In a historic move, the German federal government has now called in the military to assist in setting up new tent cities and providing basic amenities for ever-rising number of refugees.

The majority of those entering Europe illegally seem not to be fleeing armed conflicts, but seeking a better life in a welfare paradise. Europe's answer is to throw money at the problem -- money Europe does not have. Britain's Defence Secretary has suggested that the UK's £12 billion ($19 billion USD) foreign aid budget can "discourage" mass migration.

The European welfare system, funded increasingly by governments' debt in recent decades, is showing signs of an impending collapse. There is no end in sight for Greece's debt crisis, despite repeated bailout packages to the tune of €326 billion ($375 billion USD). Slow economic growth, high youth unemployment and an aging population makes the European welfare model increasingly untenable.

If the mainstream media keep reminding everyone how rioting immigrant youths in France or Britain are driven by economic inequality now, imagine the scale of unrest once European welfare states cannot finance "half the planet" anymore and are forced to cut welfare benefits.

African migrants camp out on the beach in the northern Italian town of Ventimiglia, along the French border, as they wait for the opportunity to cross into France. (Image source: AFP video screenshot)

Europe's answer to this imminent financial doom is to create still more welfare dependents or, even better, "invite" them by failing to secure the borders.

EU bureaucrats not only refuse to implement basic border controls but rebuke any EU member state moving to secure its borders. European politicians and the mainstream media are up in arms against Hungary's move to erect a border fence along its southern border. American public broadcaster PBS ran a report telling its viewers about Hungary's "new Iron Curtain." The Associated Press quoted unnamed "critics" who compared the Hungarian fence to "Communist-era barriers like the Berlin Wall."

The EU bureaucrats in Brussels want to force a single asylum policy on all 28 member states, asking that they take in more migrants. According to this common asylum policy proposed by Brussels, asylum seekers entering EU would be divided among EU members.

Hungary, with 60,000 migrant arrivals so far just this year, entering mainly from Serbia, remains the most vocal opponent of the EU's proposed policy.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has been virtually ostracized by European politicians and media, for not complying with EU's immigration policy. Contrary to the EU's position, he has called for a "distinction" between EU member-state citizens moving within Europe and non-EU foreigners. "There are economic immigrants who are just in search of a better life... Unfortunately in Hungary we can't give jobs to all of these immigrants," Orbán said, and called the EU's proposal for member states to take in more refugees "absurd, bordering on insanity."

Europe, itself reeling under a financial crisis, cannot provide housing, employment and social benefits to the thousands who each day land on European shores and cross over borders. German newspapers are full of countless reports of immigrants disappointed after arriving in Europe, almost always followed by a reporter's plea for urgent action to address the said grievance. These "disappointments" often turn into violent clashes. Police across Germany have their hands full just to keeping rival migrant gangs from turning on each other or on officials.

No one, however, especially the media, blames migrants for their own actions. The mainstream media in Germany apparently refuse to connect the dots, so as not to "feed into negative stereotypes." A columnist for Germany's Tageszeitung even wrote of an elaborate government conspiracy that drives immigrants to turn violent -- allegedly just to give them a bad name.

Tageszeitung also ran a story lamenting the "alarming conditions" of refugees landing on Greek islands. The article was accompanied by a photograph of smiling, well-fed, sturdy young men, posing for "selfies" on their smartphones while holding cigarettes in their hands. One of them was thoughtful enough to bring along a selfie-stick for his smartphone, to capture the moment he fled a "war zone" or acute "economic misery."

This, however, is the real tragedy of the unfolding refugee crisis in Europe: apart from those fleeing combat zones, most migrants swarming European borders and coastlines do not appear to be in any real or dire need. Economic disparity on other continents should not oblige Europeans to open its own floodgates for mass migration.

This crisis seems to be one of Europe's own making -- that seems to be the logical conclusion of Europe's debt-driven welfare system and the EU's contempt for national boundaries.

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33 Reader Comments

PG • Apr 5, 2016 at 04:18

It is very clear EU leaders are incapable of maintaining the rule of law in the EU and should be removed from office and current political parties sidelined. These people should also be punished in a court of law.The EU has no need of uncontrolled migration, especially by badly educated people who also cannot integrate into society due to their religion.Politicians talk about needing more population to keep the economies going , but stubbornly refuse to talk about sustainability whilst still talking about climate change .

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van meerbeeck • Sep 30, 2015 at 14:01

Whilst everyone one talks to is bitterly opposed to the unlimited immigration, the average euro citizen has for years now been brainwashed into believing that we humans are all brothers regardless of culture or religion... Any kind of negative feeling must surely be based on the fact that we are simply afraid of 'color'. No-one dares to voice his objections to the 'open door' policy of Europe and its hapless leaders, fearing to be labelled as a mindless racist and even risking his livelihood thanks to the all-round hypocrisy. Even trying to argue on behalf of common sense is fruitless as none of the media will deviate from the official policy of welcome to all and long live diversity.

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Fofi • Sep 20, 2015 at 10:12

Why is it seen as tantamount to racism to say that the migrant population is made up, just like any other claimant group, of more and less deserving!
Europe still sees itself as masters of the universe, rulers of the empire which no longer exists, omniscient and omnipotent, able to bestow boundless aid to a limitless tide of people.

Surely seeing the teetering economies in Europe, and the social unrest, we now know that we cannot help all however much our naivety tells us this is the bien pensant approach! We have to start differentiating and prioritising or the most needy will suffer. We have to start being adult and like any adult, at times saying no is the absolute right thing to say ! Let us help the genuine asylum seekers fleeing for their lives rather than accepting all who just prefer a different lifestyle. Any civilised person want to help in a crisis but when you have limited resources be sure you give it to those in greatest need!

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jaytee • Aug 31, 2015 at 10:19

Who would have thought that the creation of the EU would one day bring the demise of Europe?

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Barbara Griffith • Aug 25, 2015 at 23:33

This looks a lot like what happened here in the US last summer, thousands of kids along with plenty of adults just walking across our border with Mexico. Most of them were even taken to illegal relatives living here in the US, no wonder the taxpayers are up in arms. I think we have terrorists living in every big city but I doubt the politicians would ever admit it. You simply cannot have a sovereign country if you don't have guarded borders. You wonder too, how are the EU countries going to feed all of these people? We have unpredictable weather caused by global warming. What happens if crops are lost with no way to replace them? These countries are ordered by the EU to take in thousands of these migrants with no thought to the aftermath of just what it will do to the overburdened local governments that will be saddled with them probably forever unless some go home on their own. What a mess.

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Mike Conlon Barbara Griffith • Aug 26, 2015 at 19:39

Barbara is right to compare the EU illegal immigration to ours. Both have elites encouraging it even though we can't sensibly afford it, but rather only afford it with further debt. His focus on illegal immigration is what gives Trump his big 'Oomph' factor, not just his ability to speak up for himself without notes. Cruz, Carson, Fiorina, Christi, and probably the others can, too -- but this current "anchor babies" mention has them almost tongue tied with eyes pointing in different directions. Each one kind of addresses or changes the subject. Cowards! Trump has huge flaws for a conservo like me, but this issue washes the problems into the gutter. Until one of the cowards (afraid of media attacks and big business, national chamber of commerce attacks) grabs the issue, I will stand with Trump.

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pongidae rex • Aug 25, 2015 at 23:25

In August, 1914 Europe embarked into the nightmare of World War I because it was 'necessary to honor treaty obligations'. An entire generation of young European men were slaughtered in the trenches.

Now, almost exactly a century later, Europe is sleepwalking into an existential chaos that will end its existence as a culturally and ethnically recognizable entity, because it is 'necessary to honor treaty obligations'.

Europe has not been governed so incompetently since August 1914.

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Edmond Beniacar • Aug 25, 2015 at 20:58

When the productive consumers of Europe begin to be overwhelmed by the non-productive imported consumers, they will reach the point where they have had a belly-full of it and will resort to options such as.

1. They will turn to radical governments who are willing to tackle the problem2. There will be "blood in the streets"3. Those who have the wherewithal will leave for more productive shores with drastic consequences on the economies.

Europe has done it in the past. It ignored the threat of Nazi Germany and in the process went to war when it was almost too late. It also sought and obtained the help of the USA and the USSR without whom Europe would either have gradually switched to German as a First Language, or would have had to endure considerably greater loss and devastation before prevailing.

In this new reality, there is nothing the US or Russia, or China, or anyone else will be willing, or even able, to do and Europe will descend into a mess which is very difficult to imagine, but will be real and exceedingly painful.

Sadly, the rest of the world will also bear the economic consequences of such a European meltdown.

There was a great cartoon which showed a pair of terrorists aiming their guns at a truck convoy ascending a hill. The caption said: It is easiest to pick them off when they stand on their high moral ground. European bureaucrats now stand on what they believe is high moral ground. It won't help them be when they are either unemployed or can barely make ends meet because of the drain on their pay packet.

On the other hand, it often takes a cataclysm before people wake up and one is now brewing in Europe. It is only the smart ones, like the Hungarians, who can see the problem. Good luck to them.

It is often said that one cannot protect people from their own stupidity and, although this may seem callous, one could say that right now Western Europe and its "refugees" deserve one another.

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Silvia • Aug 25, 2015 at 18:46

So? Question from an outsider looking at Europe, what do migrants do when they arrive? Let me guess... Given your thriving economy, most will find great jobs and contribute further to the growth and development of the EU....right?

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Edmond Beniacar Silvia • Aug 26, 2015 at 03:25

Great jobs? The answer is NO. To begin with, unemployment in parts of Europe is anywhere between 15% and 25%. Youth unemployment can be as high as 30+%. According to someone working for the World Bank, this is what happens:1.They quickly go into a ghetto housing their original countrymen and go on welfare.2. They then bring "a mail order bride from the desert" the WB person's own words.3. The bride goes into the ghetto, never to come out because a) there is no need to and b) in many cases because she is not allowed to on religious grounds.4. They usually do not learn the language, are essentially illiterate or semi-literate by European standards and have minimal job opportunities.5. Life for them on welfare is infinitely better than they had in the home country and consequently there is no incentive to work and, mostly, there is no work anyway.6. There is no culture of learning, especially among the poor in Islamic countries and the Islamic culture taught at home overrides that taught at school, thus compounding he problem.

The result is a huge drain which ultimately could sink many European economies.

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Ian Glover Edmond Beniacar • Oct 9, 2015 at 19:30

Add an item 7. to Silvia's comments: With their mail order bride/s, possibly a cousin/s from their home village, they quickly outbreed the indigenous Europeans and conquer Europe via the ballot box.

Why can't the EU leaders see that the EU's open border policy and social welfare policies, financed by ever increasing debt, must inevitably cause the end of the European states and the European way of life. Their stupidity to date begs the question: what is their motive and do they even care?

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Mark Anderson • Aug 25, 2015 at 16:39

Unless Europe deals firmly with this invasion of illegal immigrants, Europe as we know it is toast. How can it support these people economically? How can European culture survive this onslaught? The current situation is simply untenable.

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Mike Conlon Mark Anderson • Aug 27, 2015 at 12:23

Yes, your point is clear and valid -- and shows we must change our policy. Logical validity is a mathematically provable concept, and it means that if the supporting points are true, the conclusion is true. The American population gets news and commentary from the same group that treats Trump's illegal immigration comments like a freak show, not treating his and Ann Coulter's (he credits her latest book with his inspiration) ideas seriously. I know that you are aware that your points are valid, and I only emphasize it because the mass of people need to understand it, and understand that Europe shows a definite straight analogy to our situation,with them further along the same wrong path.

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Peter Terry Mark Anderson • Aug 29, 2015 at 02:13

Plainly speaking, if one European nation after another continues to offer no resistance to the governments responsible for ultimately millions of refugees fleeing their native lands, and continues to offer asylum to these millions, it will be the end of Europe. Just as the arrival of the Visigoths and other Teutonic tribes ultimately brought about the downfall of the Roman Empire, this massive influx from Africa and the Middle East, if unchecked, will spell the destruction of Europe. They do not share the cultural heritage of any of the European nation states, and they will surely insist upon perpetuating their own cultural heritages as they settle down to stay. What a tragedy, that once again, Europe shoots itself...this time, in all likelihood, in the head.

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the wolf • Aug 25, 2015 at 16:38

When Greece is a better option than where you are currently, you are in a truly failed country.

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Duane Linstrom • Aug 25, 2015 at 14:43

The official posture of almost nonchalance toward the hoards of immigrants inundating Europe is mystifying. In The U.S. the liberals want the illegals because they expect them and their children to vote for liberal causes and help set up some sort of European-style socialism; some entrepreneurial conservatives favor immigrants because immigrants will work for lower wages and they help depress wages in general. Many illegal immigrants are a welfare burden in the U.S. but welfare isn't as easily attained in the U.S. as in Europe, and it is easier to join the workforce in the U.S. than in Europe.

But European officials favoring emigration by potentially civilization-changing masses of people that seem to have little interest in joining main-stream European culture is a mystery. Europe already has an economicaly backbreaking welfare system, the native Europeans voted it in themselves. All those Muslim immigrants aren't going to be socially liberal, though they'll likely continue to vote themselves great largesse from the public purse, as the rest of the European populace is doing. Europe definately has a shrinking population problem, but even with a lack of young people there're no widespread reports of jobs going begging.

Is letting in these masses of civilization-changers as the only solution to a declining birth rate, what can the European leaders think of? What do they think the long term consequences of this policy will be? Do they even think long term? It would be enlightening if they would share the thought behind their actions.

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Mike Briggs • Aug 25, 2015 at 14:13

...it's an 'Invasion'!

Mr. Uniyal gives us a nice overview of current 'Mass Immigration' into Europe, but fails to mention at all that the vast majority of immigrants are from Muslim majority countries, and are therefore majorly Muslim. Were they Hispanic and/or Catholic 'illegal immigration' as we are experiencing in this country, Europe would still have a problem just as we have, but the potential for assimilation of those two 'majorities' is quite different. The Islamic immigration (Actually it is an invasion!) has very poor prospects for assimilation because Muslims believe it is their destiny to dominate. And worse...their Islamic ideology is vastly inferior to that of the European culture, in every category worth mentioning...except one. That being 'Conquest'! So they are just as unsuccessful economically and socially in their new environment as they were in their old one, taking their new home down with them!

But that one outstandingly negative attribute of Islam 'Conquest', ... which Europe discarded in favor of 'Wealth Creation' (albeit sprinkled with Socialism) over a century ago will allow the Islamic invasion to conquer Europe inside of two to three generations if allowed to continue unabated!

I can just hear the poor European citizens now under siege, "Where is our Mr. Trump when we need him?! Hey America, please send him our way if you ultimately decide you don't want him or need him. Because we sure do!"

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Barbara Griffith Mike Briggs • Aug 26, 2015 at 01:30

Hi Mr. BriggsI think the US voters will just hang onto "The Donald" for a good while because he's the only one running for President that actually makes sense.I think he's on the right trail to turn the country around -- unlike all of the other politicians running that end up being beholden to big donors while kicking the voters under the bus.

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Carmen Barringer Mike Briggs • Aug 26, 2015 at 04:31

I agree totally with Mike Briggs's assessment of the migrant situation. I am amazed at the lack of decision-making by the EU, and their lack of understanding of the danger of taking in thousands of Muslims into their countries. The Muslims did not keep it a secret of making Britain their base of Islam in Europe. But what does Britain do? Increase the numbers of Muslims living in Britain. David Cameron encourages this, and has instructed the police to always take the side of the Muslims. It is illegal to display the Union Jack the flag of Britain, it offends the Muslims. Rape and crime is rampant. Our beautiful country looks more like a third world country every day. There are daily groups of Muslims intimidating the British people. Regular marches protesting against the British and how they hate Britain, still we turn a blind eye. Meanwhile they are getting the upper hand. Now the EU wants us to take more Muslim migrants. We must protect our culture and our country from those that would do us harm.

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Bulletbob • Aug 25, 2015 at 12:16

This situation just shows you what can happen with open borders. This all looks like an attempt to create a "One World Order." This whole concept will never work. First, to create more jobs, you would have to endorse capitalism. Many countries & the EU are not for that. There are too many Political Leaders who all want to be in charge. The "Open Border " concept sounds good on paper, but it won't work. Make everyone work and cut this insane welfare & handouts. Jobs must be & can be created. Welfare and government hand outs are for people who are aged or have physical handicaps. Immigration laws were put into place to protect the economies & prevent overcrowding

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Dara Cunningham • Aug 25, 2015 at 11:53

When did Europe become so weak and stupid? Even Germany, of all countries! Is there no end to the insanity of white guilt and political correctness? Europe is doomed to destruction.

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Robert Davis • Aug 25, 2015 at 10:52

Financial bankruptcy is not as dangerous as political demise, but of course usually the second comes first. Hopefully European people will wake up when they are bankrupt and so maybe they can save their nations from an all out invasion as we see now, because the latter is much worse. The Roman Empire was destroyed by such invaders because the emperor took the habit to pay them not to enter too deeply into their land and when it got bankrupt and could not pay them any longer. Invaders attacked their people, defeated their armies and destroyed their empire. It would have been best if Romans destroyed the invaders instead of paying them when they still had the means to do so, but as today they preferred to spend their money on feasts instead of war! Thereafter it was too late to defend themselves because they had no money to pay the soldiers.

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Sandra Girardau • Aug 25, 2015 at 09:36

The governments of Europe and UK are irresponsible, putting their own people in line behind these people who are mostly economic refugees.The governments have brow beaten their poor over-taxed citizens into believing that if they do not welcome these people they are racists.
At the same time these people are flooding Europe huge amounts of monetary aid is being sent to these countries to no avail it would seem.
Diversity is becoming another word for genocide of the indigenous people.
There is only one way this will end total economic collapse and civil war.

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El Cid • Aug 25, 2015 at 09:01

The progressive ideological view is that "colonialism is bad", and that "nationalism is bad". That is what the Europeans learn in school today. Instead of taking pride in the achievements of Europe, they apologize for them.

The positive dividend of the EU is that Europe has not fought another world war in over 70 years. This benefit should not be undervalued. It is a great achievement.

However, the dismantling of Europe's borders and the loss of will to project power and influence in the world inevitably will attract this kind of mass migration of people. Allowing the international system to collapse, like in Iraq and Syria will eventually force people to migrate. The worst outcome possible is cascading failure of European states.

"Colonialism" built economic infrastructure both inside and outside of Europe. In business we learn that you cannot develop anything without strong boundaries. Between states, these boundaries are called 'borders'. Europe would be far better served by investing in keeping these people at home in their own countries. How? I cannot say.

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ErikKengaard • Aug 25, 2015 at 08:59

" . . . the logical conclusion of Europe's debt-driven welfare system and the EU's contempt for national boundaries." Amen.

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Michael Petek • Aug 25, 2015 at 08:37

The British Government announced today that legislation will be introduced to make it a criminal offense to work illegally in the United Kingdom. Wages earned through illegal working will be subject to confiscation as the proceeds of crime, and businesses caught employing illegal workers will be liable to closure.

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rivka shpak lissak • Aug 25, 2015 at 08:31

The only way to save Europe from becoming part of the Islamic civlization is to initiate a project to resettle the immigrants back in Africa.The project;factories, agricultural villages, hospitals and more

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Wendy • Aug 25, 2015 at 08:02

Not only the EU countries, but also the US, are constantly implementing policies to endorse an obvious conflict of interest between the residents of each nation or group of nations, and the needy immigrants who are being allowed to move into them and expect to receive welfare benefits. In whose interest can it be to weaken a country's welfare system? Not the interest of the residents of that country, and not in the interest of the immigrant welfare seekers. When everyone is impoverished, everyone loses. When there are not enough trained people to provide what is needed (let alone enough taxes to support further welfare requirements), the system collapses. Then people live by the side of roads in tents, if they have them, and under bridges if they don't. And this extends not only to the immigrants, but to the previous residents who cannot ignore the need of the newcomers.

Can it really be that the governments concerned are totally blind to this obvious reality, or is there another goal in mind of which only the few policy makers are informed? Is some sort of a reset button about to be pressed, putting us on government-controlled rationing of what at present we think our government, with its bureaucratic management by numbers, delivers to us? Healthcare would be included in this. But so could a lot of other things.

The global immigration problem really is at the point of its origin. People who abandon their own country by the hundreds and thousands are leaving for reasons for which that country, and its immediate neighbors, should be responsible. We -- farther away -- ignore these country's problems at our own peril, as we are the ones accepting the responsibility for the results of the issues, and we do not have enough resources to adequately cope with what we are already handling.

But I forgot. Responsibility is not a word that these (central) government decision makers want anyone to take personally. Instead of encouraging personal responsibility, they opt to promote group 'rights' to make special interest groups government dependent. It seems rather obvious that the only sure winners in this power play will be those who remain in power when the rest of us run short of our basic requirements. One has to wonder who they perceive themselves to be, at this juncture, and whether, if a 'reset' button is pressed, they will succeed in what they envision the new social order to become.

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Michael Waugh • Aug 25, 2015 at 07:25

Mostly the young, fit and those with funds to pay criminals arrive. Should not these remain in their own countries to fight the terrorists and political filth ? The millions of weak and poor stay at home. Do we in Europe await the millions in our overcrowded countries ?

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Ron • Aug 25, 2015 at 06:59

Europe offers "a better life" because these people come from countries which are run by people like them. Once they are the majority of course, people like them will then dictate Europe's future and the better life will be gone. There's a book, "The Camp of the Saints" by Jean Raspail, I remember seeing years ago, chilling reading.

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Fred • Aug 25, 2015 at 06:53

I always thought that "migrant" is a misnomer for the new invader of Europe. These colonists have a good idea of what they want & how to get it, no effort. Most have come for the welfare package, no work but to live off the fat of the land. The contribution they may be prepared to give is no integration, no work, but proclaim the right to "victimhood," be given special treatment to the detriment of the local populace, if they do not get it the scream of Islamophobia, racism, it will shatter your ears. The media has the support of the left wingers & the state.

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Bernard Oster • Aug 25, 2015 at 06:16

Ironic that Germany, the leader of NGO assistance to the Palestinans and provider of millions of Euros in wasted aid, will soon be the grateful recipients of their thanks doling out benefits, free housing and just a little trouble on the streets.

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Dian (Dina) Grossman Kjaergaard • Aug 25, 2015 at 05:36

Another contributing factor is guilt-driven self-hatred. A highly respected "bleeding heart" Danish bishop said recently something to the effect of: "Oh, well, there have been mass migrations before, everything will change, but life will not end".

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